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55. E. polybulbon, Ste. Tubers serial, oval or ovate-oblonp;, siibcompressed, 2- A 

 leaved; scape short, 1-fiouiered; leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, bluntish; perigonial 'r 

 divisions lanceolate, acuminate, greenish ; lip white, undivided, roundish above the claw j 

 column red, 2-hornecl.— Dinema, Lindl. /— 1"-3" high ; leaves li"-4"', perigone and lip 

 6'" long. — Hab. Jamaica!, Mac/., Pd., March, on trees, in the mountains; [Cuba I; 

 Mexico I]. 



56. E. bletioides, 6r. (n. sp.). Tubers ovate-lanceolate, %-leaved; leaves fleshy, 

 lanceolate-oblong, blunt, shorter than the scape ; sterile bracts distant, short, appreesed- 

 sheathing, blunt, floral ones subulate, much shorter than the pedicel ; flowers distant in a 

 spreading panicle, or racemose ; perigonial divisions pointed, exterior lanceolate, interior 

 oblong-lanceolate ; lip undivided; ventricose-concave, elliptical, pointed, with 2 linear crests 

 below the middle : claw very short ; column obovate, sharply 3-dentate at the broad sum- 

 mit. — Allied to K subaguilum, Lindl. (sec. Echb. in lit.). — I'-li' high; leaves 5"-6" 

 long : their number is not quite certain, as they are detached from our specimen ; perigone 

 6'" long, pale-brown in drying. — Hab. Jamaica !, Fd., Hanover. 



§2. Lip adnate to the column. — Aerial Inters: scape terminal. 



57. E. pygiusenm, Hook. Tubers serial, linear-fusiform, sub-3-gonal, supported by 

 a few, large, loose scales, ^-leaved; leaves oblong-lanceolate, pointed ; flowers 1—3 at the 

 summit qf the tuber, sJmrtVji pedicellate, white ; perigonial divisions exterior lanceolate, G 

 "interior linear-acuminate; lip i-lobed; lateral lobes rounded, embracing the column, 

 middle deltoid, acuminate." — Bot. Mag. t. 3233 : a form with thicker tubers and the peri- 

 gone greenish with a white lip, the latter with a red spot at the point. — Tubers 1" long, 

 g"'_3'" diam., exceeding the basilar scales ; leaves 3"-lJ", flowers about 6'" long ; capsule 

 3-winged. — Hab. Jamaica!, Pd., Wulhchl., on rocks and trees; Trinidad I, Sra<^., abun- 

 dant on old calabash-trees; Mexico to BrazilJ. 



58. E. serrnlatum, 0. Bchb. Tubers filiform, enclosed by ragged scales, X-i-leaved ; 

 leaves grass-like, linear or linear-lanceolate, crennlate, as long as or exceeding the short, 

 fi!iform scape ; raceme few-flowered : flowers " brown-red," subdistant : bracts ovate, acu- 

 minate, about as long as the pedicel, lowest sterile ; perigonial divisions ovate-lanceolate, 

 pointed ; " lip undivided, embracing the column, tapering above." — Cymbidium, Sw. — 3 "- 

 1" high, csespitose ; leaves 2"'-3"' broad ; perigone 2"'-3"' long (not yet opened) : iip pro- 

 bably nearly conform to the divisions. — Hab. Jamaica !, Macf, Pd., on trees near Blue 

 Mountain Peak. 



59. E. ciliare, L. Tubers of several nodes, clavate-fusiform, 2-S;leaved; leaves ob- 

 long, oblong-lanceolate or oval, blunt, usually exceeded by the scape ; flowers white or / 

 whitish, in a spreading raceme : bracts oblong-lanceolate, twice or more exceeded by the (f 

 ovary, inferior sterile ; perigonial divisions linear-acuminate, expanded ; lip obovate, eut into 

 Hexuose fringes, the terminal division exserted. — Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 209.' — E. cuspidatum, 

 Lodd.—V-i,' high; leaves 4"-8", perigone , H"-2'' long.— Hab. Jamaica!; Antigua!, 

 Wullschl., Dominica I, Imr., S. Vincent !, Guild. ; Trinidad !, Bradf, on rocks and decayed 

 trees ; [French islands !, Sieb. Mart. 207 ; Mexico ! to Guiana !, New Granada !]. 



60. E, Tariegatuiu, Hook. {L.). Tubers fusiform, 2{-"4i")-leaved; leaves lanceo- 

 late-oblong, bluntish, often as long as or exceeding the scape, the latter supported by a 

 spathe ; flowers variegated, greenish with purple spots and strealcs, racemose : bracts minute, 

 deltoid ; perigonial divisions spathulate or obovate, blunt, exceeding the lip ; lip undivided, 

 small, obovate, apiculate, longitudinally 2-callous, approximate to the column. — Bot. Mag. 



t.Zlhl. 8"-20'' high; leaves 6"-10" long, often separated by an inlernode; perigone 



4"'-5"' long. — Hab. Jamaica {Lindl.) ; [Cuba I to Brazil]. 



61. E. fragraus, (Sw. L.). Tubers fusiform, supported by a few large scales, \-p7ml- 

 lous ■ leaves lanceolate-oblong, blunt, exceeding the scape, the latter supported by a spathe; 

 flowers whitish with purple streaks on the lip, in a short raceme : bracts smaU ; perigonial 

 divisions exterior lanceolate-acuminate, interior shorter, as long as the lip, elliptical, pomigd^ ; 



.lip undivided, roundish, cuspidate.-^ol Mag. t. 152.-E. cochleatum, Cto-if. {non L.).— 

 6''-12"hio-h leaves 6"-8", perigone 8"'-12"' long.— Hab. Jamaica!, Bist., Lane, Wullschl., 

 on trees and rocks ; Dominica !, Imr. ; Trinidad !, Bradf ; [Cuba ! to Brazil !]. 



